Janet’s World by Mike Sager (.ePUB)
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Janet’s World: The Inside Story of The Washington Post Pulitzer Fabulist (TSG’s Women in Journalism Series) by Mike Sager
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Overview: “Janet Cooke was a warning shot, a harbinger of all kinds of journalistic scandals to come.” —Howard Kurtz, author and media critic
Janet Cooke caused one of the biggest scandals in the history of journalism when her Pulitzer Prize-winning article, about an eight-year-old heroin addict, turned out to be a fabrication. Cooke, a reporter for the Washington Post, worked under the legendary editors Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward. Her disgrace was a jarring wake-up call for the news industry.
Cooke’s transgressions rocked the foundations of public trust the press had built since the Vietnam and Watergate eras when the 4th Estate was seen as a force for objective reporting and an advocate for the public good. Immediately, Cooke became infamous, the first in a line of publicly exposed fabulists, including Stephen Glass of the New Republic and Jayson Blair of the New York Times.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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